An old friend calls you and immediately mental images flood your brain: his face, this heavenly corner where you spent your vacation, this shared drink on a Parisian terrace… But for some, no image. And for good reason: they suffer from aphantasia. “Them the brain seems unable to form mental images and therefore to represent a place or a face.explains Dr: Paolo Bartolomeo, neurologist at the Brain Institute (Pitié-Salpêtrière, Paris), author Think straight and: The latest brain news (Flammarion Publications).
If this inability to present mental images has been known since the end of the 19th centurye century, the name aphantasia is much more recent (2015), as are the studies devoted to it. One of the first questions the researchers asked was what difference it made to not create mental images. Memory and the ability to imagine the future seem to be affected.
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Source: Le Figaro
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